Aphrodite




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Parents: Zeus and Dione
God/Goddess of:
-Love
-Desire
-Beauty
-Fertiltiy
Significant Children:
Cupid-god of love and desire
Aphrodite helped make Pandora:
Zues had Hephaistos took earth and dirt together with voice and and
strength in a human kind, a lovely maiden figure but like a goddess
in the face. Athena to give her the abilities to do needlework and
weaving the varied web. So then Aphrodite to shed grace upon her
head and cruel longing and cares the weary the limbs. And then Zeus had Hermes put in a shamefull mind and a deceitful nature. And then wih a whole girl put together they named her, Pandora, for all-gifts.




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Sources:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/p/Aphrodite.htm
class notes
http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeMyths.html#Birth
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/parisaphrodite/aphrodite.html

http://www.cynthiakorzekwa.org/afrodite.jpg

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